Azure Storage, Backup
and Recovery Services
August 16, 2023
AGENDA
• Azure Storage Overview
• Azure CDN Overview
• Azure Backup and Recovery services overview
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AZURE STORAGE
OVERVIEW
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AZURE STORAGE OVERVIEW
• Azure Storage is Microsoft's cloud
storage solution for modern data
storage scenarios.
• Azure Storage offers a massively
scalable object store for data
objects, a file system service for the
cloud, a messaging store for reliable
messaging, and a NoSQL store.
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AZURE STORAGE OVERVIEW
Durable and highly LRS ZRS
Azure Storage is available GRS GZRS
Secure
Scalable
Managed
Accessible
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AZURE STORAGE SERVICES
Azure Storage
Blob File
Table Queue
Azure Storage also includes managed disk and Azure Elastic SAN (in preview)
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AZURE STORAGE ACCOUNT
Storage Account
Standard general- Premium block Premium file Premium page
purpose v2 blobs shares blobs
Blob Blob (including Page blobs
(including Data Queue Table Files Data Lake Files
only
Lake Storage) Storage)
For more information about storage accounts see About Azure Storage Accounts and How to create SA
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AZURE STORAGE DATA API AND LIBRARY REFERENCES
Handling:
• synchronous and
asynchronous
invocation
• batching of
operations
• exception
management
• automatic retries
• operational behavior
• and so forth
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TOOLS AND UTILITIES
Azure PowerShell CmdLets for Storage
Azure CLI Commands for Storage
AzCopy Command-Line utility
Azure Storage Explorer
Azure Storage Client tools
Azure Developer Tools
Azure Resource Manager templates for Azure Storage
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BLOB STORAGE
It is Microsoft's
object storage
solution for the
cloud. Blob
storage is
optimized for
storing massive
amounts of
unstructured
data, such as text
or binary data.
Blob Storage
For more information about blobs see Understanding blobs
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BLOB STORAGE COMMON USAGE
Serving images or
Storing files for Streaming video
documents directly
distributed access and audio
to a browser
Storing data for Storing data for
backup and restore, analysis by an on-
Writing to log files
disaster recovery, premises or Azure-
and archiving hosted service
For more information about Blob storage, see Introduction to object storage on Azure.
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Azure Files
It enables you
to set up highly
available
network file
shares that can
be accessed by
using the
standard Server
Message Block
Azure Files (SMB) protocol.
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AZURE FILES COMMON USAGE
Replace or
supplement on- "Lift and shift"
premises file applications
servers
Simplify cloud
Containerization
development
For more information about Azure Files, see Introduction to Azure Files.
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TABLE STORAGE
It is a service
that stores
structured
NoSQL data in
the cloud,
providing a
key/attribute
store with a
schemaless
Table Storage
design.
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TABLE STORAGE COMMON USAGE
Storing datasets that
Storing TBs of don't require complex
structured data capable joins, foreign keys, or
of serving web scale stored procedures and
applications can be denormalized
for fast access
Accessing data using
the OData protocol and
Quickly querying data
LINQ queries with WCF
using a clustered index
Data Service .NET
Libraries
For more information about Table storage, see Overview of Azure Table storage.
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QUEUE STORAGE
Stores large
numbers of
messages that
can be
accessed from
anywhere in
the world via
authenticated
calls using
Queue Storage
HTTP or HTTPS
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QUEUE STORAGE COMMON USAGE
Decoupling application
components to
increase scalability Load leveling
and tolerance for
failures
Building process
workflows
For more information about Azure Queues, see Introduction to Queues.
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AZURE CDN
OVERVIEW
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AZURE CDN OVERVIEW
Azure storage
account
in Europe
Content
Seattle New Paris Seoul Tokyo
* POP York POP POP POP
POP
Client in
South Korea
* POP - Point of presence
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BENEFITS OF USING AZURE CDN
Better performance Large scaling to
and improved user better handle
experience for end instantaneous high
users loads
Distribution of user
requests and serving
of content directly
from edge servers
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AZURE CDN FEATURES
Dynamic site acceleration
CDN caching rules
HTTPS custom domain support
Azure diagnostics logs
File compression
Geo-filtering
For more information about Azure CDN see CDN Overview
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AZURE BACKUP
AND
RECOVERY SERVICES
OVERVIEW
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AZURE BACKUP OVERVIEW
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WHY USE AZURE BACKUP?
Offload on-premises backup
Back up Azure IaaS VMs
Scale easily
Get unlimited data transfer
Keep data secure
Centralized monitoring and management
Get app-consistent backups
Retain short and long-term data
Automatic storage management
Multiple storage options
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RECOVERY SERVICES VAULT
For more information about Azure Recovery Services Vaults see Overview
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AZURE SITE RECOVERY OVERVIEW
On-premises VMware Azure
virtual machines
Site Recovery Service
Orchestration
On-premises
Windows/Linux
only
physical servers
On-premises Hyper-V
Orchestration, replication,
hosts Azure storage,
failover, and failback
virtual machines, and network
On-premises
Hyper-V hosts Azure
in VMM clouds
Site Recovery Service
For more information about Azure Site Recovery see Overview
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